DATA AVAILABILITY
Daily precipitation and temperature data (1961-2016) were from the China Meteorological Data Network (https://data.cma.cn/). The 30-meter digital elevation model (DEM) was from the geospatial data cloud (http://www.gscloud.cn/). Data on 361 reservoirs located in the mid-lower reaches of the YZR were retrieved from the Global Reservoir and Dam database (GRanD) (Lehner et al., 2011) .